Nostalgic Calvin and Hobbes Fan Art

Calvin & Hobbes has always been one of my favorite cartoon strips. I fondly remember snatching the funnies out of the Sunday newspaper (you know, back when newspapers were a big deal) and carefully reading strips in a particular order. Peanuts was a light appetizer, Far Side was my dinner salad and that huge, full color Calvin & Hobbes strip was my delicious main course. While the Internet was still kicking off, I was digesting those thin paperback, 100-page releases of a year or two of Calvin & Hobbes strips.

When I revisited the comics as an adult about 15 years later, I started to pick up on the clever elements of philosophy and history that are wrapped into the comic strips. it makes me think Pixar stole their entire gameplan to make movies for both adults and kids directly from Bill Watterson.

Anyway, if you are interested in discovering or rediscovering Calvin & Hobbes, I highly recommend the Calvin & Hobbes Tumblr. For those familiar with the series, check out this collection of Calvin & Hobbes fan art created by a large collection of different artists:

Calvin & Hobbes Fan Art

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I learned how a certain outlook coupled with creativity and unconcious, incautious optimism can bring joy into so much of life, both the good parts and the bad. That and the value of a good cardboard box.

In reading Calvin & Hobbes, during in my teenage years, I learned that if I could go back in time and observe my young self, I would be just like Calvin. I say this because I’m always told that I’m a kid in an adult’s body. So I don’t want to grow up. What the big deal?

May sound a little ridiculous but I learned how to READ thanks to Calvin and Hobbes.
I also learned that simple mischief is not sufficient for a young boy, dreams of grandeur must be involved in all exploits.

I learned that Snowmen are out to get me… but, on a real note, I learned that being a kid is a magical time where your imagination can be your best friend, and how we need to think like a kid once in a while to recapture that magic. Also, the fuddy-duddy in me says that all the digital stimuli that kids get nowadays rob them of the joys so eloquently captured in Calvin & Hobbes.

What Calvin and Hobbes taught me growing up is that being a bit weird is totally okay, even cool if you have the right friends. So forget what everyone else thinks, just you and your best friend the tiger.

Back in the day when I was a latchkey kid and spent a lot of days with my brother home alone, Calvin and Hobbes was like a doorway out to the open world from the safety of my home sort of filling in the role my parents should’ve filled teaching us about the poignant strength of a colorful imagination and philosphy. And being of Asian descent stressing getting good grades but was consoled by calvin that even if I was lacking in studies there was more than that, that my value lied in more than that and to enjoy myself despite not always being the best in school. So Calvin and Hobbes brings such a sense of fond nostalgia and gratitude when I read it again

I learned ENGLISH! Yes…Calvin & Hobbes was a must read for me as a 9 year old immigrant to learn about the American culture (nursery rhymes were another set of fun reads that fulfilled the same intent).

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